"The Cognitive School Of Thought" (Week 3)

      Hi everyone, I am here again. Today,  I WOULD like share about what I have learned in my Pedagogy In Education class for this week. In this week class, our lecturer thought us about " The Cognitive School Of Thought". 

 In this particular lesson, I have learned in detail about Information Processing and Meaningful Learning which are two wide-ranging ideas that are helpful to people out there especially to those whom are in education field or are learning this particular field like me to understand how people specifically students learn and remember information that has been thought to them during teaching and learning process that occurs in the classroom. Information processing is defined as the study of how we mentally adapt and keep information and bring those information back when needed meanwhile meaningful learning involves the study of how new information can be most effectively coordinated, structured, and taught so that it may be used by the teachers in future. For example, during problem-solving situations.

   

Furthermore, I also learned a few general beliefs of cognitivist with the regards to memory. One of the general beliefs is that information in the short-term memory is lost either when that memory is overloaded or with the passage of time which means students are able to loose the information that they have learned if their short-term memory is full or overloaded.

      In addition to this topic, I also get to know the cognitive approaches to teaching and learning process. Based on what I have learned , there are four (4) approaches which are:

1. Authentic Learning- knowledge is more meaningful and remembered  longer

2. Scaffolding- teachers need to provide support to students when they need it (facing problems)

3, Reciprocal Teaching (ReT)- communication that occurs between teachers and learners in the classroom especially about what need to be learned.

4. Problem Solving-- emphasizes in achieving the goals of the learners.

As a conclusion, this particular school of thought will be very useful for me as a future educator in conducting my daily teaching and learning process in my classroom.This is all for now. Next week, I will  be back with another new topic which is "The Humanistic School Of Thought and PLEASE give feedback for my article. Thank you.